The BIOS or the OS?
The BIOS would not recognise any partitions in a hard drive. If the OS can see the 8GB partition then it should be able to see the other partition, and how the drive is hooked up wouldn't change that.
Which OS?
i have an acer aspire m1201 running a hitachi 80 gig sata hard drive partitoned as the master and trying to hook up seagate ata model st3400168 as a slave to retrieve pitures the seagate drive is partitoned into 8 gig and 32 gigs but i cant see 32 gig partiton only 8 gig the 8 gig was th boot drive on the seagate

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